Bad Drugs & Medical Devices

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A class action lawsuit is a legal proceeding where one or several plaintiffs file a lawsuit against a defendant on behalf of a class of members who have similar grievances.  The individual who initiates the class action is known as the “named plaintiff.”  The named plaintiff drives the litigation and

This depends on the specific circumstances involved in your particular case.  However, bad drug lawsuits routinely take a considerable amount of time (at least one to three years) to reach a favorable resolution.  Settlements are rarely reached quickly in such cases, because once it is discovered that the drug and/or

The greatest threat from prescription drugs remains the FDA’s fast-track approval policy. Originally conceived by advocates for critically ill patients, fast-track has become the tool of earnings-driven multinational drug corporations, who aggressively pursue the premature release of many medications, without adequate clinical trials and sufficient knowledge of how the drug

MDL litigation is a special procedure created by congress in 1968 in which complex federal civil cases from around the country are transferred to one federal district court for discovery proceedings and pretrial motions. If a case does not settle during MDL, or is not dismissed during MDL, it is

Mass tort action lawsuits are quite different from class action lawsuits. In a mass tort lawsuit each plaintiff has an individual claim resulting from distinct damages and therefore each plaintiff ultimately receives their separate trial. However, in a class action the many plaintiffs typically are not considered individually and there is only

Mass tort lawsuits are different from other personal injury lawsuits in numerous ways.  However, there are at least two significant primary distinctions that that clearly set mass torts apart.  First, mass torts involve the hundreds or even thousands of individual claims that have all been harmed by the same product

Products liability refers to the liability of all parties along the manufacturing chain of a product for injury or damage caused by that product. This includes the manufacturer of component parts (at the top of the chain), an assembling manufacturer, the wholesaler, and the retail store owner (at the bottom